How do I manage to meet up with my prayer schedules?
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Good day, sir. I responded to one of your VNs with a follow-up question but I didn't get a response, so I deleted it and decided to ask you directly.
I have, for example, set aside a time to pray from midnight to 1am because it is a quiet time and many leaders in the church have guided that the best time to do so is from midnight to about 4am.
I, however, struggle with either staying up to wait for this time or sleeping and waking up between these times, for various reasons, including a busy day from work and various programs in the day.
How can I overcome this because I feel like I am not trying hard enough to sacrifice my time for God?
Hello, my dear, this is simply a scheduling issue, right? We carve out time for things that mean a great deal to us and we plan for them. If it is your intention to sit, to spend time with God from midnight to 1 am, then you have to structure your day in a way that is possible, all right?
Either you stay up till then or you fight to sleep early, like 9 or 8 or something like that so that when you wake up at 12, you have enough strength to pray for that hour and then go back to sleep. It's something that you have to schedule, you have to plan for, and you have to prioritize.
Whenever we want to have hangouts with our friends at different times of the day, we see how to carve out things for it. When we have a big interview with, you know, a great job opportunity, we see how to find our way there.
Why can't we do the same thing with God? The issue is that most times we don't prioritize God as much as we claim, and we don't take our meetings with Him as seriously as we like to tell ourselves, and that's just the truth. So it's really a scheduling matter and a planning matter. If you want to meet with God at 12, you have to arrange your day in such a way that's possible.
For some of us, you know, maybe you have to get to work at 8 o'clock in the morning, and maybe you live, you know, many miles away. Because of that, you have to wake up at 4, right, 4 in the morning to get ready, get on the road by 5.30 in order to get to work by 8, and of course, if you have to leave the house by 4, that structure of your work life dictates what time you go to bed and what not.
So if we're able to arrange our lives in such a way that we can meet up with our commitment with men, I dare say we ought to be at least willing to do the same for God as well, right? So it's a scheduling matter, and you have to make up your mind.
There's also a place to pray to God for grace, and we must never lose strength in praying to God for grace, right? God help me. I like to wake up every day at 12. Give me strength, and you'll be surprised at how God can begin to empower you. Sometimes, He'll be the one to even wake you up, but you need to make up your mind that this is what you want to do. That's when that possibility becomes even more feasible, all right? So make up your mind, prioritize, and plan for it. God bless you
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